Prevailing cobwebbed pieties

Washington Times ^ | 11-27-06 | Mark Steyn

[JZelle]

Have you seen a movie called Four Jills In A Jeep? Don't worry, it's not at the multiplex. It came out in 1944. A wartime movie, about the contribution of the gals to the big existential struggle. Great title, and downhill after that. This column is, metaphorically speaking, four Jills in a jeep: It's about a quartet of ladies who provide useful glimpses of where we're heading.

[JZelle]

" The first is Fatima Omar Mahmud al-Najar, a 57-year old grandmother who had a livelier Thanksgiving than most granmas. She marked the occasion by self-detonating in the town of Jabaliya, and, though all she had to show for splattering her body parts over the neighborhood were three "lightly wounded" Israeli soldiers, she will have an honored place in the pantheon of Palestinian heroes: She was, according to the official statistician from the Hamas Book Of Records, the oldest Palestinian suicide bomber ever. And, naturally, her family's pleased as punch. "

[Jack Hammer]

The people at Guinness have been notified.

[tx_eggman]

But, if "sex education" means an understanding of sexuality as anything other than an act of transient self-expression, then Scarlett is talking through that famously cute butt

As cute as that caboose is, it doesn't make up for stupid ...